Quotes About Character

We repress our bodies to purchase a soul that time cannot destroy; we sacrifice pleasure to buy immortality; we encapsulate ourselves to avoid death. And life escapes us while we huddle within the defended fortress of character.

Cultivating awareness of our death leads to disillusionment, loss of character armor, and a conscious choice to abide in the face of terror.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had attained it and he knew it was not disgraceful and it carried no loss of true pride.

No Pilar, Agustin said. You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart.

The priest was good but dull. The officers were not good but dull. The King was good but dull. The wine was bad but not dull.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

What are you made of? What you love. And steel added.

He grinned with his hat on the back of his head. He looked more like a Broadway character of the Nineties than the lovely painter that he was, and afterwards, when he had hanged himself, I liked to remember him as he was that night at the Dôme. They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ma di cosa sei fatta, tu? Di quello che ami disse lei. Più l'acciaio.

There are no man like them when they are good, but when they get bad, there's no world which is worse.

The biggest boy was long and dark with Thomas Hudson's neck and shoulders and the long swimmer's legs and big feet. He had a rather Indian face and was a happy boy although in repose his face looked almost tragic.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

They're funny people," Thomas Hudson said. "They're all brave and some of them are so damned admirable. Then they have mean ones like this.

Show irony and pity.

A man must learn to recognize values.

There are no men like them when they are good, but when they get bad, there's no world which is worse.

Non c'è nulla di nobile nell'essere superiore a qualcun altro. La vera nobiltà consiste nell'essere superiore a chi eravamo ieri.

he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All

They say the seeds of what we will do are all in us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.